1. Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them.

2. I think about going in my room now, but it smells like the inside of an old lunch bag in there.

3. You can pick your friends, but you’re stuck with your family.

4. The dark scares us, for we don’t know what is waiting in the dark

5. Sentence, for and nor but or yet so sentence.

6. It’s Friday night, and Mom is yelling at me because I won’t eat the chicken she cooked for dinner.

7. There was only about a block to go before our bus stop, but I couldn’t stand Stephen’s whining.

8. Stephen is my best friend, but I’m not sure he’d admit it.

9. A compound sentence has two or more independent clauses (simple sentences) joined together by coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS). A formula can be used to create a compound sentence: Sentence +, + one of the FANBOYS +. = Compound Sentence